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" Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. "

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" The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic. "

" Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it. "

" The best stories come out of the truth. "

" I love designing, and I still do it. "

" Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial. "

" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "

" I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly. "

" People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at. "

" The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right. "

" As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget. "

" As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma. "

" From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people. "

" I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. "

" Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy. "

" We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists. "

" When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water. "

" You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.' "

" I do a pretty good job at casting actually. "

" One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar. "

" I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny. "

" Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all. "

" I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.' "

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" Cast is everything. "

" I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out. "

" If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves. "

" I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that. "

" What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be. "

" I don't ever blink, honestly. "

" I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars. "

" In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. "